The World Cup …….
Littlestone was hearing of the World Cup so much, he finally asked someone- What is the world cup?
They told him.
Hmmm. So many are swept away with a decoy as the reality of the times are going by them in a flash…. Soon they who turn a deaf ear to the cry of His heart, will be faced with the consequences.
Repent, turn from your wicked ways and return to Me……..Littlestone prayed they would turn and quit being distracted by Satan’s ploy…….Keep them busy….. Killing the allotted time God has given them by frivolous things. Instead of using their time to know and draw close to the One who holds their breath in the palm of His hands. The One who can help and fix things if they prayed and spent their time with Him…..
Soon there will be a cup the world will drink, if folks never turn to Jesus Christ and repent. When they refuse take the cup of salvation from His hand which is graciously been bestowed on us…..Do we really think we can stand before the….God Almighty’s cup of wrath?
Littlestone quickly thought of a writing a dear friend wrote…..The amazing thing is how blind and unbelieving Christian people are, and therefore how unwilling to seek to know the way of the ‘unshakable’.
He was driving to the stable again, early in the morning to ride Aaliyah.
He thought, thank You Father. You are a great God…..You have given me the grace to really desire You and to have to hear Your voice and receive Your leadings more than anything on this earth. How I appreciate and respect You Almightiness. I pray that all have the desire to know You and value You by the saving knowledge of Your Son, Jesus Christ.
Sorry, Father, if that is not a real word, but…..Your Sovereignty is beyond what we can even imagine or think, yet, You ask us to partake in Your affairs by prayer. Your Almightiness is awesome to me.
I praise You and will gladly daily drink the cup of Your Salvation and the Bread of Life than to partake of any world cup that is forgotten by football season which then is forgotten by the next world cup…. And the beat of vanity goes on…..
Your Salvation that is offered today will not be forever…..You, Father, are giving us Your Son for this time before us….If anyone has a clue, time is soon coming to an end……The world today is receiving a shaking to show all who have eyes to see and ears to hear……Grab unto the One wo is eternal and His kingdom…..All other will pass away.
There is a time for relaxing…..But not when the fire is looming near your own home, your own soul……Wouldn’t the one be called a fool who did not go and get the needed water to soak his property, his home, his soul in?
God, You, will not be mocked- whatever a man sows, he will reap.
Eternal life is to know God, the Father, and His Son by the presence of Your Spirit.
He turned into the drive of the barn, and the horses welcome committee were nickering away…..They sounded like the horses were turning on their engines……Happily anticipating their hay and steamed crimped oats.
He fed Aaliyah some hay and dropped feed and hay for the other horses. He wanted to feed her after their run to hear Him at His Meeting Hill. He was tacking her up as he heard the occasional sneeze and munching a bunch on their grains. Never an animal will refuse their food and water- unless they are sick….But people are a different matter. Pride kills.
He was reminded of the scriptures on the ride up……Why? He knew he would be filled in as the days were approaching…..
First Scripture was when Abram had helped defeat some kings from taking over. He couldn’t remember the names of the kings. After the battle was won, He was met with Melchizedek, who had no beginning, no origin…..Abram was blessed by him( Him ) and had wine and broke bread…..with this awesome High Priest.
What was highlighted before Littlestone was…. After he met with Melchizedek, Abram then spoke to a king who offered him booty from the battle of the opponents. Abram’s answer was: I have raised my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth and will not take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich,……Genesis 14:22-23.
All things come from Him and through Him and for Him and He gets ALL the glory and praise.
Littlestone thought of all in his life that God Himself had brought him through……..He, His God, alone gets the glory and praise……If He who holds our breath, does He not hold all blessings that He sends our way? We work, we believe and He blesses……
Then Littlestone thought of the Laodician church as written in Revelation 2:14-19: To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot.
I wish you were either one or the other!
So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’
But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.
So be earnest and repent.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”
Littlestone knew better than to ask: why are You showing me these things now?
Littlestone knew all would be revealed.
Then he saw Isaiah 35, which is one of his favorite chapters….
The desert and the parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom;
it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
they will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.
Strengthen the feeble hands,
steady the knees that give way;
say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
he will come to save you.”
Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool,
the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.
And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness;
it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there,
nor any ravenous beast;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Littlestone eyes were misting from the reality he now lives is written in this chapter…..He was so grateful that His great God turned his soul from a parched land into a garden of His delight because His Spirit came to dwell and blossom as a rose within Littlestone. Just because Littlestone said yes to the cross and knew he needed a Savior…But one look into those beautiful eyes….He could never turn away…Littlestone still finds Him to gaze.
Only God could transform what was dead into a fruitful field within anyone.
Father, I pray and ask for Your mercy and grace to bestowed upon many this day. May their barren hearts get to know the true Living God and receive Living Water residing within them….Please allow the veil of unbelief be removed so they may see and shake their head in awe to Yes, Sir, come and I too come and bow before You this day because of Your great love that You have revealed unto me that You have for me. This I ask and thank You in Jesus Christ’s name.
Then he was shown the other favorite Scripture in John 7:37-39: On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Then Littlestone heard as he was hopping off Aalyiah, people will not fair well when they are following people instead of I AM. John 16:33: I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Okay, thought Littlestone…..World Cup versus Your Cups….There are two of Yours…..May, I pray Lord, that many turn and drink Your cup of Salvation….TODAY.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:
Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.
So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest, ( Hebrews3: 7-11).
There are three cups out there for us to choose?
Which one will we drink from today?…..Today is the day of salvation as His arm being shown……revealing Jesus Christ hung on a cross for all of our sins and inquities……Then rose from the dead, if we believe, we have spiritually rose and will rise again……Do we believe Him?
When we choose His Salvation and drink His cup of Life and forgiveness, we avoid the other two cups. The world cup and the lies it offers…A big time waster and the cup of the Almighty’s wrath.
Littlestone sat down to write all that was given to him….
Then he heard:
Beware of the Pharisees, who go around in their best of robes and sit and consume the best places at their feasts from the offerings of the people…….Those who come against them, they will try to dismantle what I AM has mantled. Though they wear the rich cloak of deception, their deceptions will be openly revealed to those who see and are told to speak. Nothing will be hidden that has been done against My called and chosen and called faithful to I AM…..
My cup comes to all. I have chosen you…..Will you chose I AM today?
SELAH!!!